What Kuan Shi Yin has to say about the matter:

94 REACHING THE END To honor your goal you need to work at it every day, And now the lure of wine and thighs is hard to overcome — If you see the true gold, then a wise one will speak for you: Wealth, good luck, happiness and a high place are all waiting.

To my Mom's father =  Harold Lanier (Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy) a drunkard sailor man, who died in 1973 of a heart-attack positioned by his own bitter cup, only 6 months after I was born.  arrhhh...
sunken ships--and thanks for rotten luck, though it made much less of me than you likely thought it might !  -- j.a.knolls